Abstract
Crime is a common social phenomenon existing for thousands of years. Due to different political and economic system, national tradition, and cultural background, crime presents various patterns in different countries. Rapid social transition accompanying economic growth and system transformation make crime a serious social problem. Social transition affects social life in all directions and induces social disorganization in every respect. Its influence to commit crime proves easy to cause a power vacuum in social institutional change, and negatively affect on crime prevention and social control ; it tends to produce negative psychological phenomena such as anomie, stress, resentment, and confusion due to disorganization and reconstruction of social order and social norms, which result in frequent anomie and deviant behavior (Zhou in New contemporary empirical criminology. People’s Court Publishing House, Beijing, 2004). Altogether, crime is natural product of rapid social transition (Zhou and Cao in Theory and positivism of criminology. Wunan Publishing Company, Taipei, 2007). A study on the relationship between social disorganization and crime in China has irreplaceable significance to clearly understand criminal phenomenon in periods China’s social transformation. Proper crime prevention and control measures could be made through a deep study on the influences of various factors of social disorganization on crime. Thus criminal legislation could be improved.
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Xiong, H. (2016). Making Sense of Social Disorganization. In: Urban Crime and Social Disorganization in China. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-287-859-5_2
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